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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Is sameness the key to equal opportunity? What can that look like? When Dan D.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The Economic Times : “Startups in student-lending sector see dropouts, but some score too.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Private Colleges Had 58 Millionaire Presidents in 2015.” MOOCs are out. Performance on PISA Decline Because of Common Core? More via Techcrunch.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

April 20th - May 4th, 2015 Two Week Calendar | Learning Revolution Events | Learning Revolution Blog | Partner Spotlight To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. Please share this newsletter with your friends and colleagues! Two Week Calendar Monday, April 20th at 8pm TL News Night LIVE!

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” ” Via The Washington Post : “ School offers ‘incentives’ to get kids to take Common Core standardized test.” Robots hate the Common Core.